Bellingham Comments from Digital Recorder - EISs for the Proposed ...

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. II
COURT REPORTER: BETH DRUMMOND PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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1 have written notes with you, please leave them behind and
2 that will help us with the transcription.
3 39, 40, and 41. 39 you're at the microphone. 40
4 and 41 you're at the desk.
5 Please state your name for the record.
6 THE SPEAKER: Hi. My name is Andy Basabe. I'm
7 28 years old, and I've lived in Bellingham all my life --
8 Western Washington University, and this is one of my
9 favorite places in the world because of the outdoors that we
10 all share.
11 I think there are two things that the EIS should
12 scope. One is NO2 emissions in Bellingham and other coastal
13 communities and anywhere else along the railroad lines that
14 have valleys or are sheltered by mountains.
15 The Swinomish Indian Reservation has a monitoring
16 station for NO2 where trains idle, creates spikes in the NO2
17 -- three minutes, and those trains are smaller than the
18 trains we'd be experiencing. And I believe Bellingham is
19 experiencing adverse effects as we are sheltered.
20 The other one is industrial noises effect on
21 breeding mammals between here or at Powder Basin. All the
22 railroads tracks will be cutting out the habitat between
23 here and there. Animals will be affected from the noise,
24 and animals are adversely affected from the noise -- and
25 I'll discuss their breeding habitat -- into smaller areas.